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Among the missing were two members of the Philippine Assembly, many another Filipino personally known to wispy President Manuel Quezon. Said he: "My heart goes out to the families of those who perished in this terrible accident, some of whom were dear personal friends who had rendered signal public service...
...this evening was very tense, the city faintly outlined from the shadows of smoldering fires started in the noontime raid....Civilians are assuming wartime posts of censorship, patrols, supplies, guarding, nursing, doctoring, evacuating, bandage-making....I watched half a dozen dogfights and saw at least two enemies downed....The Filipinos were good and spirited....Talking to already stubble-bearded, grimy Yank soldiers at undisclosed posts: "I'd like another crack at those low-flying bastards. Write my mother I'm a hero. I'll stay here. I'll stick it out."...Night sounds: howling dogs, shouts...
...them would. At Ann Arbor, Mich., a young Filipino marched into a police station, asked politely: "Now can I shoot the first Japanese I see?" In Nashville, Tennessee's Department of Conservation put in a requisition for 6,000,000 licenses to hunt Japs at a fee of $2 each. The purchasing department vetoed the requisition, with the note: "Open season on 'Japs'-no license required...
...past two months, juramentado murders in Sulu have averaged one every other day. In Jolo, the biggest city (pop. 6,000), Moro Aharaji went juramentado after being conscripted, chopped off the head of a Chinese baker, killed one Filipino soldier and slashed another before he was stopped by a policeman's shotgun blast. He fell dead on exactly the spot where the same policeman had killed another juramentado ten days earlier. Townspeople shivered, waited for the next attack...
...have to." In 1908, for one peso (50?), he bought name, good will and subscription list of a defunct weekly. In the beginning he was its entire editorial and business staff. He upset the American colony (and once was threatened with deportation) because he insisted on giving Filipinos their just dues in U.S.-Filipino squabbles. But the Free Press soon gained a respectful audience...